A Joplin woman pleaded guilty today to her role in the kidnapping conspiracy that resulted in the death of Michael James Hall, Joplin, whose decomposing body was discovered during the execution of a search warrant at 3517 Cherry Road July 28, 2020.
According to the plea agreement, which was filed today in U. S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Carla Jo Ward, 47, admitted to picking up Hall at 7th and Schifferdecker and driving him to the location where he was tortured and eventually shot to death.
Ward pleaded guilty to kidnapping and to being illegally in possession of a firearm. She is the third person to enter a guilty plea following Russell Eugene Hurtt, 51, Joplin, and James B. Gibson, 41, Webb City.
Change of plea hearings are scheduled Thursday for Amy Kay Thomas, 40, Webb City, and Lawrence William "Scary Larry" Vaughan, 51, Neosho.
A change of plea hearing had been scheduled May 1 for the man who allegedly fired the shot to the head that killed Hall, Freddie Tilton, 50, Joplin, but that hearing was canceled.
Details of the kidnapping and murder can be found at this link.
4 comments:
There really should be no plea bargain for any of these people involved. Tilton should receive life without parole. All the rest should get a minimum of 25 years. They knew they were going to kill that man before they ever took him to that location. They are disgusting excuses for human beings.
People are always saying Jesus take the wheel, and it's apparently not working yet!
Bleeding hearts for murderers , I’ve never understood this plea bargain nonsense, need to fire any judge and prosecutors that is involved in this
These people tortured this man for enjoyment they are waste of my oxygen
I doubt even Jesus wants to be associated with these individuals. Seems like they removed him from the equation a long time ago.
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